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Brazen thefts on rise in City
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Residents are unimpressed with police response
TYLER ORTON Times Reporter
MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
Residents of Rainbow Lodge aren’t the only ones upset with the amount of crime taking place in Langley City. “Langley City is the place not to be,” says Lois Munday, who sits on the strata council at Monterey Grande at 202 Street and 54A Avenue. Munday, along with several other residents of her building, are taking up a petition and will present it to City council after one too many break-ins in her building and an increase in crime in her area. Her frustration is shared by Pyramid apartment manager Ron MacIsaac, who has watched crime spike over the spring break at his building at 203 Street and 54 Avenue. Both are pointing fingers at the police, who they feel aren’t doing enough. “We as taxpayers are entitled to protection,” said Munday. “All of us are just livid.” On March 28, roommates living in a ground floor unit were getting ready for work at 7 a.m. when they heard a front window smash. A thief reached inside, grabbed a laptop from desk and took off. One of the residents went after him in a panic. When she saw no one, she put her key in the common area door and it became stuck. She had to leave it there, and later it was missing.
Task force to reassess council pay hikes
Miranda GATHERCOLE/Langley Times
Griffin Iwasaki was thrilled to meet the Easter Bunny at Willowbrook Shopping Centre last weekend.
Langley Township council is reaching out to the community to evaluate how municipal politicians receive pay hikes. Council voted Monday in favour of establishing a five-person task force — preferably composed of Township residents — to look at how other comparable municipalities in B.C. and the rest of the country distribute salary raises to elected officials. The move comes after automatic pay bumps were given to the mayor Councillor Kim Richter and councillors in December 2011. Wages for councillors went up 19 per cent last year, increasing by nearly $7,000 from $36,043 to $42,936. Mayor Jack Froese saw his annual salary go from $93,724 to $105,456 — a 12.6 per cent jump. The original recommendation called for the task force to look at remuneration practices at comparable B.C. municipalities. But Councillor Bob Long and Councillor Kim Richter both said they favoured broadening the scope to look at the rest of Canada. “I think part of the reason we’ve gotten into the difficulties that we’ve gotten into recently is because we’ve been looking just at B.C.,” Richter told council. “The B.C. system seems to be self-perpetuating.”
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